Wednesday, April 26

Good morning!

Today we will continue to work on the Great Depression and begin the New Deal.

Current Events
Trump tax plan to be announced today - NYT

Uh-Oh; getting into NYC by train from NJ is about to get a whole lot worse - NYT

Groups sue NYC subway system, claiming it discriminates against riders with disabilities - remember, you pay for the subway system here in Rockland - NYT

Today in History

• 1607

  Colonists land at Cape Henry, Va., They would found Jamestown the next month.

• 1865

  John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin, was surrounded by federal troops in a barn in Virginia. He was shot and killed, either by the soldiers or by his own hand.

• 1937

  The German Luftwaffe (air force) destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica.

• 1964

  Tanganyika and Zanzibar joined to form Tanzania.

• 1986

  The worst nuclear power plant accident in history occurred at Chernobyl, near Kiev, U.S.S.R.

• 1994

  The first multi-racial elections were held in South Africa.

• 2000

  Vermont Governor Howard Dean signed the nation's first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.